SNAP funding has been restored with the end of the government shutdown. But the timing of benefits being paid may vary.
The Trump administration had said SNAP food assistance wouldn’t be distributed in November because of the government shutdown. But on Friday, a judge ordered that contingency funds be distributed.
Now that the longest shutdown in U.S. government history has ended, the SNAP will resume funding in Tennessee.
Judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island ruled Friday afternoon that the Trump administration must fund SNAP during the government shutdown.
The 15% expansion of food stamp payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP for short, during the ...